Sorry for the delay.
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Absent any plans for pre-trip shopping,
Targ and
Dureau elect to linger behind and prolong their breakfasts while the others set out to spend some of their newly earned coins. As the group's plans still involve setting out for
Greenest early this new day, their shopping excursions begin soon after finishing their morning meals.
While splitting up would make the most efficient use of their time,
Breburh is a small enough town that they feel comfortable all traveling together to each stop -- which should total no more than three or four: a smithy, a tanner, the general store, and potentially a place to find adventuring gear, if necessary.
First Stop: Horgath's Anvil
Catarina,
Grimbul,
Urth, and
Kañ-Demir approach a spacious, single-story, windowless stone building with a pair of chimneys; each billowing a constant stream of smoke. A steel-framed wooden sign reading
"COME IN." hangs outside the front door, which is kept slightly ajar.
Catarina, who has the most business at this location, peers inside and notices a tall human male with straight blonde hair and an uneven beard clanging a small hammer against a sheet of steel; rotating and repositioning it on an anvil with each strike. After a few moments, he grabs the steel with a set of tongs, heats it in one of his two burning forges, pounds it a few more times, then douses it into a barrel of water. A sizzling sound accompanies a blast of steam which lasts for a moment or two, until he withdraws his current project and sets it on a workstation, which is cluttered with hammers, chisels, fullers, swages, tongs, and other tools of the trade.
He glances over, wiping the sweat from his brow with a gloved hand, leaving behind a streak of dirt, or soot. He removes his heavy apron and gloves, uncovering a stained of heavily stained overalls. He wipes at his face again, this time with a towel.
"How can I help you?" he asks in a no-nonsense manner, looking curiously at his half-cat patron.
"Name's Horgath," he volunteers, introducing himself to his prospective customers.
Catarina, with
Grimbul in tow, and
Kañ-Demir and
Urth trailing along, begins the introductions for the party and shares her intents.
"Sadly, I don't currently have any suits studded leather available, much less one that would accommodate your frame," Horgath admits, but does add that a suit could be commissioned for her -- in three or four days -- if she'd like.
"I'd just need to take some measurements... and collect a minimal deposit, of course."
"I can definitely help you with your rapier and dagger request, though." he quickly chimes in, moving, with an unexpected grace for a human, over to a waist-high shelf in corner of his shop and returning with some samples.
"The rapier I can part with for, say... 30 gold, and the daggers we'll say are 1 gold each." he offers.
Grimbul interjects himself into the negotiation and asks to inspect the blades. The dour dwarf grunts and grumbles a few times, nodding and shaking his head at various points, then suggests that one of the rapiers is
slightly imbalanced. While
Horgath strenuously objects, he does agree to drop his price on
that blade.
"Fine," he says begrudgingly.
"I can maybe knock 3 gold off that one -- so, 27 gold..." he mumbles.
The smithy agrees to purchase the short sword for the expected 5 gold.
"In fact, I'll make it 6 gold if you make a purchase here today."
Urth takes this opportunity to mention his interest in parting with his mace.
"A fine weapon," Horgath says as he continues his inspection.
"Lightly used... or, maybe, just well cared for... "
"Speaking of well cared for..." Urth says, capitalizing on the opportunity to transition into his next request: tools or supplies to care for leather armor.
"Surprisingly, I probably have what you're looking for --" the smithy acknowledges, again, that he doesn't currently have any leather armor, studded or otherwise, and doesn't really have a need for the supplies any longer since he hates working with that medium, and has gotten into the habit of pushing people to the town tanner for those requests.
"Care to make it an even trade?" he asks, suggesting he part with his steel brush and a few flasks of preserving oils in exchange for the mace.
When
Catarina tries to request some arrows be included in any deal, the smithy doesn't stock or sell them, but does offer up a dozen of his own personal arrows at no cost if it will get a deal done.
"So, do we have a deal? Or deals?" he asks, hopefully, looking to both
Catarina and
Urth.
Second Stop: General Goode's General Goods
The general store is next. There,
Kañ-Demir is able to secure a sack full of bread loafs, wheels of cheese, and a few other foodstuffs -- enough for a five meals -- for 1 gold piece.
Third Stop: Hide Away
A series of curses are heard as the group approaches the town tanner.
"You piece of shite!" a male voice is heard yelling, frustrated.
Tery, the tanner, looks miserable as he works to stretch a piece of leather, but lacks the strength to do so.
"You arse!" he cries, cursing the cow that supplied this particular piece of hide, before realizing the group had arrived.
He stands to greet the group, his potential patrons, and makes no apology for any language you may have overheard.
Tery is slender, with thin, untoned arms, and has wavy golden hair and dark amber eyes. He wears an old suit of leather armor and a scimitar rests in a scabbard nearby.
"The fock can I do for you?" the wiry man asks, anxious for some reason to return to his task. When
Catarina presents the suit of leather armor she's looking to sell, the man just stares.
"You interrupt me for that?!" he says flatly.
"Get the fock out of here..." Then, before the stunned group can even react, he quickly has a change of mind.
"Eh, 5 gold... take it or leave it," he says, fishing his hand into a pouch dangling from his belt and jingling some coins.
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Alright, that's where we stand with the initial offers.
Each contact has a different tolerance for negotiations, but you're welcome to try. Though, I might caution you against pressing Tery too much.
I wasn't sure exactly how these shopping trips would work, but I'm thinking they'll be fully managed here -- meaning, feel free to respond directly in this topic with your responses to the presented offers. We'll role-play the entire shopping trip here.